Department of Veterans Affairs in Alaska

VA awards tagged to Alaska

Department of Veterans Affairs as awarding agency, Alaska as place-of-performance: 4,802 records summing to $2,663,605,980.98. A Department of Veterans Affairs award coded outside AK is out. An award in Alaska from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Alaska (AK) excludes Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii. Place of performance is a state tag, not a travel-for-care catchment.

Four thousand eight hundred two awards is a mid-count VA file: many more rows than a thin Energy cell, far fewer than a USDA assistance flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 4,802 as 4,802 unique enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. The overlay Department of Veterans Affairs in Alaska is the both-keys table. Alaska federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Veterans Affairs is the agency book without an AK filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Anchorage-versus-Fairbanks clinic folklore is not a packet split. The dollar total stays statewide. Correlation is not causation: Alaska did not “cause” $2,663,605,980.98 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 036 × AK only.

Award rows are not unique veterans

$2,663,605,980.98 does not measure enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 036 and an AK place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 4,802 awards as a census of enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Alaska federal spending or Department of Veterans Affairs matched $2,663,605,980.98 and 4,802, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Washington and Oregon VA joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of Veterans Affairs obligated in Alaska?

USAspending.gov records $2,663,605,980.98 across 4,802 awards with awarding agency 036 and an Alaska tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. Department of Veterans Affairs in Alaska is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,663,605,980.98.

Is $2,663,605,980.98 a measure of enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings?

No. The packet publishes $2,663,605,980.98 and 4,802 awards for agency 036 inside AK coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this VA file have 4,802 awards?

That is the award-record count for 036 × AK. Combined with $2,663,605,980.98, the average is about $554,687. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 4,802 is not unique enrolled veterans, hospital beds, or disability ratings. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Veterans Affairs in Alaska is the overlay. Alaska federal spending and Department of Veterans Affairs are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $2,663,605,980.98. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.